Don't Let The Truth Get In The Way

On a steamer bound for Baltimore

I said that's no fun, i've been there before

So I jumped ship in Singapore

--------With a cook from Mexico

Got a bowl of shark-fin soup,

Ducked into a bar for a couple a scoops

Played some texas-stud with a circus troop

--------and they cleaned me out of dough

At dawn they all went back to bed,

I went to Borneo instead,

Had a hair-of-the dog for my shrunken head,

--------With the sultan of Brunei

Had a small bit of a seizure

On the way to Micronesia

Got a bad case of amnesia

--------And forgot to say goodbye

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story

No harm no foul no crime

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story

It'll get 'em every time.

Stopped in Tajikistan on the way to Iran,

Took a break in Jamaica to work on my tan,

Swam from Cayo Fragoso to Carriacou

I climbed Machu Pichu in Darkest Peru

Had a pint with the pope and played pool with the queen

She's good with a stick if you know what I mean

I once had a job riding bulls in Montana

I taught Jimi Hendrix the star-spangled banner,

I've been to Morocco, Malawi, Macau

I know how to fly, but I won't tell you how

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story

No harm no foul no crime

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story

It'll get 'em every time.

Bought an ice cold coca-cola

From a Congolese High-Rollah

Got deported from Angola

--------To a castle on the Rhine.

Ask anyone that knew me,

The Emir of Bahrain sued me,

I was in a Blockbuster Movie

--------And I didn't make a dime

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story

No harm no foul no crime

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story

It'll get 'em every time